It was seldom to be expected that the general and the civil governor of a province should either conspire for the disturbance, or should unite for the service, of their country.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

After a review of these anti-protestant proceedings, the British reader will not think of comparing them with the riots of London in 1780, or with those of Birmingham about 1793; as it is evident that where governments possess absolute power, such events could not have been prolonged for many months and even for years over a vast extent of country, had it not been for the [360] systematic and powerful support of the higher department of the state.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Yet I must hold to this opinion, that a prince so extremely circumspect and prudent as he was, did nothing rashly, especially in an affair of so great importance; but that, upon weighing the vices and virtues of Tiberius with each other, he judged the latter to preponderate; and this the rather since he swore publicly, in an assembly of the people, that “he adopted him for the public good.”
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

[94] sine dubio finem et modum transeunt; relinquunt enim et abiciunt oboedientiam nec rationi parent, cui sunt subiecti lege naturae; a quibus non modo animi perturbantur, sed etiam corpora.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Don’t they also pay spies, executioners, civil-guards?
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

But, on the other hand, a careful examination of the "Book of Standards," now preserved in the College of Arms, provides several examples charged with marks of cadency.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Por mí, pues, no ha de quedar On my side, I’ve said y, a poder ser, estad ciertos if it’s possible, it’s certain, que cenaréis con los muertos, since I’m going to invite them, y
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

Limitations as to entry into the Kula, therefore, exist only in big Kula districts such as that of Dobu and of the Trobriands, and they are partly local, excluding whole villages, and partly social, excluding certain people of low rank.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

When at last, after several of these dreadful panics, they reached the opposite bank and fancied themselves saved, a perpendicular steep, entirely covered with rime, again opposed their landing.
— from History of the Expedition to Russia Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year 1812 by Ségur, Philippe-Paul, comte de

Suppose this [young man's] mind had addressed him in the words of his appetite, perceiving such evil consequences: "What would you have?
— from The Works of Horace by Horace

Ambitious parties sometimes even compromise for the weakest, rather than yield the palm to superior merit of which they are meanly jealous.
— from History of the War Between Mexico and the United States, with a Preliminary View of its Origin, Volume 1 by Brantz Mayer

To complete the history of a particular stamp, every collector ought to know and to inscribe in the proper place in the album these points, so far as the information can {149} be obtained from reliable sources, and so far as it may be applicable:— Date of issue.
— from Chats on Postage Stamps by Frederick John Melville